Just for the pleasure, the last pics of the last cherry blossoms of the season. As always, too short…a blinkle of an eye and it’s gone. The blog is going to take a break for 10 days while my parents are visiting but I will be back mid-May with more pictures of our travels around the region. See you’ then!

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health/ Voici un sommaire propose par WordPress! petit retour sur 2010 pour ” Genki”

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Le compteur pour ce blog dit “Wow”

Crunchy numbers Les chiffres

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,800 times in 2010. That’s about 7 full 747s. In 2010, there were 44 new posts, not bad for the first 4 months! There were 449 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 328mb. That’s about a picture per day. The busiest day of the year was December 16th with 86 views. The most popular post that day was La photo du 15.

Where did they come from? Mais d’ou viennent-ils?

The top referring sites in 2010 were expat-blog.com, facebook.com, takenoko.wordpress.com, delicious.com, and muravej.jp. Some visitors came searching, mostly for feuille de shiso, algue hijiki, goya legume, chansons du moment, and feuille de chrysanthème.

Christmas is at our doors! For something a little different, here are pictures of our dinner at a kaiten sushi or sushis on a conveyor belt. Japanese sushi are pretty different from the ones one can find in the US and in France. I think they are a lot more simple, each sushi one or two ingredients at the most. Click here to have a look at my best experience for sushi in Portland, OR! So at this place, you are served 3 kind of sauce to eat your sushis with: a dark soy sauce, a ponzu (lemony) sauce and a light soy sauce.

In Okamoto near from Kobe, we met a family of wild boar or inoshishi in Japanese. It was quite surprising to see them from so near, Okamoto is in the suburb of the city so it’s full of houses, buildings and shops. This family had certainly decided to spend their Saturday in town! They were looking for food in the little river where people tend to throw trash away (yes Japan is not that clean, believe me).

The male was really impressive, especially his snout. I had just bought 2 croissants and was hiding them from him, but I bet he was smelling them!

Minoo is a little town located 30 minutes north of Osaka. It’s one of the best place to see the leaves in the Kansai area. Unfortunately, we were a little bit to early. Last time, I went there in 2002 (my gosh 8 years ago already!), it was full of colors!